Revised – 12 keys to being excellent at anything

By Jeff Hilimire | September 6, 2010 |

REVISED ::: I ran this post last week and many people contributed with their thoughts/additions.  I’ve been looking for a way to have tweets and comments flow directly into a post so that you can read the post more as a conversation and less as a disjointed, “Here’s my big thought” and then a bunch…

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12 keys to being excellent at anything

By Jeff Hilimire | August 30, 2010 |

The Harvard Business Review has an article entitled, Six Keys to Being Excellent at Anything.  I actually haven’t read it yet, or at least at the point of writing this post I hadn’t.  I saw the title and thought that I’d like to read it, but then I thought it would be an interesting exercise…

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A book that every entrepreneur should read

By Jeff Hilimire | August 24, 2010 |

Full disclosure, I was never really interested in the Zappos.com story.  I got what Zappos was, but until Amazon forked over $1.2 billion for the company I really didn’t understand the scale that it had gotten to.  Obviously, it was pretty freaking big. And I had seen their CEO, Tony Hsieh (pronounced “shay”), on Celebrity…

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I have seen the future of location-based apps, thanks to Tungle

By Jeff Hilimire | August 11, 2010 |

I’ve been pretty vocal about how I’m down on Foursquare.  Not their business model or potential, but how I’m personally struggling with Foursquare’s relevance in MY life.  At the very least its pointed out to me how much cooler my friends’ lives seem to be. And I’ve been equally vocal about my current WeRewards obsession…

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